Sentence examples for old scoundrel from inspiring English sources

Why, by her own estimation she can out-grin, outrun, out-lift and out-lie any old scoundrel.

And then the old scoundrel comes to the heart of the matter: "If an uptown voter won't register Democrat, raise his taxes.

Indeed, after watching a snippet of the press conference at which Loretta Lynch, the new Attorney General, and James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., unveiled the charges, I couldn't help feeling a pang of sympathy for the old scoundrel.

A comic actor of great intelligence who cheerily forsakes subtlety here, Mr. Murray is often very amusing as this pointed Shavian cartoon of a grasping opportunist — "an old scoundrel," as Morell calls him with familial amity.

Apart from stiff Unit scientist Harry Sullivan early on, the Fourth Doctor wasn't much for travelling with the fellas (whether or not that was at the behest of old scoundrel Tom Baker is a conversation for another day).

In the hot air balloon trial I would flee the burning city with him rather than with Benedict XVI any day ("a leering old scoundrel in a long white frock", how Galileo would have enjoyed that).

Ms. Holmes and Mr. Butz had met once before, briefly, in 2008, when she was making her Broadway debut in the revival of "All My Sons" and he was backstage visiting his old "Scoundrels" co-star John Lithgow.

There's a Healing Hug movement, led by a guru named Holy Wayne whom Perrotta memorably characterizes as "that age-old scoundrel, the Horny Man of God".

Harrison Ford's wily old space scoundrel was a cynical Force denier in the original trilogy, but has now been retooled as the conduit for Rey, Finn (and us) to scrub up on our Star Wars history.

Gower a deliciously old-school scoundrel David Gower gave his Terry-Thomas side full rein before play began on the first day, referring to Michael Clarke's former girlfriend as "the delicious Lara Bingle" as the Sky team previewed the action.

It taps into archetypes of the collective unconscious – the wise old wizard, the dashing scoundrel, the warrior princess and the son of destiny.